I headed into the Wordle site excited at some interesting possibilities for teaching creative thinking to my English students and left the site feeling that it is simply a cute, but not all that useful, way for teachers to post information.
Pros
Cons
Possible uses in the classroom
Visually appealing to students
Hard to read
Would make an intriguing short poem
Interesting emphasis on most common words
The selection of the words is not based on ranking of word frequency in the text.
Each time you generate the text This is problematic because
Editing student writing
Typically, the most important words appear
There is no connection between concepts
Search for key concepts in student writing an novels
A Slide Show Program Well Within the Capabilities of a 6 Year-old
Matthew Isom
Prezi.com
This amazingly easy slide show format could be taught to any student in a day, and the basics would only take 20 minutes
Wordle--a mixed bag
Matthew Isom
I headed into the Wordle site excited at some interesting possibilities for teaching creative thinking to my English students and left the site feeling that it is simply a cute, but not all that useful, way for teachers to post information.
Each time you generate the text This is problematic because
A Slide Show Program Well Within the Capabilities of a 6 Year-old
Matthew Isom
Prezi.com
This amazingly easy slide show format could be taught to any student in a day, and the basics would only take 20 minutes
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